SPECIAL SCREENING : Paradise Lost - In honour of the 40th Anniversary of Peter Minshall's First Mas BandAnne Lambright, “Yuyachkani in the Caribbean" (Trinity College)D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, “The Spectacle of Skin” (UWI, St. Augustine)

Moderator: Funso Aiyejina (UWI, St. Augustine)

​Violet Johnson, “Caribbean Memories, American Realities” (University of Texas A&M)Lisa Sánchez González, “‘Blacks in the Discovery of the New World’” (University of Connecticut)Davarian Baldwin, "The Rising Tide of Color"(Trinity College)Maggi Morehouse, "Controlling the Tide: Racial Policies and the Black Soldier" (Coastal Carolina University)

​Garth Myers, “The Useful and Ornamental Plants of British Colonialism” (Trinity College)Max Hantel, “Archipelagic Political Ecology” (Dartmouth College)Shalima Mohammed, “Fasting among religiously-mixed families in Trinidad and Tobago…" (COSTATT)"Kumar Mahabir, ""Virgin Mary as Mother Kali: The Intersections between the Hindu Mother Kali and the Black Madonnas in Catholic Churches…" (University of Trinidad and Tobago)

Moderator: (to be announced)

​10:00 – 10:30

​Dicussion

​Discussion

​10:30am – 10:45am

​COFFEE BREAK

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10:45am – 12:15pm

​SESSION 3.1

​SESSION 3.2

​10:45 – 11:45

​Fingerprints: Caribbean Identity in Film and Music

​Exploring Poplular Culture and Caribbean Links

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​Rita Keresztesi, “Rethinking the ‘Post colony’ through Film and Music""(University of Oklahoma)"Eric Galm, “Connecting Africa and the Diaspora with a Musical Bow” (Trinity College)Rebecca Robinson, "Tides Turning in Cultural Policy: A Case Study of Film in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago" (UWI, St. Augustine)Maggie Griffith Williams, "Screening of the Pichakaaree in Trinidad"(Northeastern University)Moderator: Jessel Murray (UWI, St. Augustine)

​Urs Berger, "The Current Calypso Music Scene in Trinidad and its Outlook" (Independent Scholar/Trinity College)Hallie Blejewski, “We Can Only Desire To Understand The Instrument: Hip Hop, Hybridity, and Steelpan in Nigeria" (Wesleyan University)Louis Regis,“ The Calypsonian as in-zile/exile: The Case of David Rudder” (UWI, St. Augustine)Renée Figuera & Wendell C Wallace, "Discourse, Globalisation and Translocalization of Gangspeak" (UWI, St. Augustine)

Moderator: Lutalo Masimba (Brother Resistance)

​11:45am – 12:15pm

​Discussion

​Discussion

​12:15pm - 1:30pm

​LUNCH

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​1:30pm – 3:00pm

​SESSION 4.1

​SESSION 4.2

​1:30 – 2:30

​Shaping Transnational Identities

​Second Glances-Rewriting the Caribbean Narrative 18th Century to 21st Century

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​Barbara Lewis, “Extracted from the Everyday” (University of Massachusetts)Andrea Dyrness & Enrique Sepulveda, “Being Caribeño in Madrid” (Trinity College & University of St. Joseph)Daniel Arbino, “Digital Flows of Caribbean Identity” (University of Minnesota)

Moderator: Nicole Roberts (UWI, St. Augustine)

​John Martin, “Kalinago and Enslaved African Interactions on Grenada” (Grenada National Museum)Armando García de la Torre “Re-Constructing the History of Indigenous Peoples of Trinidad”(UWI, St. Augustine)Kristina Xie, "Chinese Presence in the Caribbean” (Trinity College)Harry Franqui-Rivera, "Military Service and the Puerto Rican Diaspora in the Extended Caribbean" (Hunter College, CUNY)